Elon Musk is sending rockets to Mars, putting electric motors in hot cars, generating power from roofing shingles, boring tunnels for hyperloop travel, and creating a “$6 Million Man” within the next year. Musk’s other, other company, Neuralink, has a tiny device designed to fix issues like paralysis, autism, schizophrenia and other brain-related conditions. Beyond that, he says, it will create a tertiary layer of digital superintelligence that works in harmony with the limbic and cortex. But it’s HOW he wants to do all of this that makes the best part of the story.
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I had the biggest crush on Steve Austin. I was about 8. That sound was unique, a great example of TV self-hypnosis going straight into the brain and staying there forever. (“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s —“)
This all sounds so good. Very much like the hopeful feeling I got when I learned about the little girl Charlotte and how a brand new medical marijuana oil significantly reduced her weekly 300 grand mal epilepsy seizures. For those afflicted with neurological disorders, this dream of Elon’s would be a welcome risk.
Of course, with all good feelings, there is the downside. Neurol implants are not for everyone. As was the case with so many millions of folks flocking to MMD’s to get their anxiety fix. Some really needed this valuable medicine. Some just used the opportunity to abuse.
Anyone who’s seen the movie Johnny Neumonic may harbor a little fear that a little chip can help, but a whole lotta download can destroy.
While trying to find Charlotte’s name, I saw the USA today report on April 9, 2020, little Charlotte passed away from what may have been Wuhan Coronavirus. While testing negative with the swab, the report noted her entire family was quite ill for a month before she became sick and needed hospitalization. She lived in Colorado Springs, and she made it to 13 when she passed.
It’s true that as we look at the 100’s of thousands of deaths of The Wuhan Bat virus and succumb to seeing that as a very concerning statistic, suddenly I am brought to near tears over the death of a child I never saw, met, nor knew, and had not thought about in years. This single death is indeed a tragedy. Makes me really rethink each death caused by this virus. Each life cut too short is indeed a tragedy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/09/girl-who-inspired-charlottes-web-marijuana-oil-dies/5120478002/
Musk ego, nooooooooo. His new baby has been named X Æ A-12 Musk. No, no ego. 🙂
In ancient times, to make a call,
we used a phone upon a wall,
Tethered there we paced or sat,
’til cordless did away with that.
Cordless saw our necks askew,
and button prints on faces, too,
’til cell phones came to render aid,
now memory is retrograde,
we crash our cars, film our ruin,
text in words like “wut u doin”
So, tech doeth strive to rise again
to tether man’s undaunted brain.
What shall we do, as mere mankind
with inner thoughts on party line?
When all this comes, will man survive?
Look up my brain
and click Subscribe!
I never realized the intellect of Elon Musk and how it works. More power to him! Sometimes I think I must live in the Dark Ages…
I have a son that lost both legs in Afghanistan. And another son with autism. If you think I’m not so excited about this you would be so wrong. I might even buy a Tesla some day. Wow, this would be so cool!
Peggy, Thanks for bringing it home in the most personal way, and God bless you and your sons.
-Scott
Chip implants? Maby. Wireless access to the chip? Scary.
Modern technology is fantastic…BUT…there’s too much room for unethical people to abuse it and I simply will never trust it until the opportunities for abuse are removed. Period.
The technology is owned by corporations and corporations are owned by government. These implants will undoubtedly be subscription-based. Oops, forgot to pay the bill; bye-bye.
OOOOOOOOOOOPS! Bill.
Men have two brains now; where will Elon Musk implant his device?
Above or below the waist?
(I can’t compete on Musk’s level so I default to the puerile.)
IF….you go by his math and yours, that would account for 4 brains.
Any technology that can be achieved can and will be abused.
Assume the $6 transplant by a robot exists. Assume it can do what Musk wants it to. Then assume the politicians required that a backdoor be provided so that government could control the mind in which the “chip” was implanted. *Poof* we have a situation worse than 1984 and Brave New World combined. The masses will be controllable at the push of a button without even bothering with education, propaganda, and gulag brain wishing.
Freedom vanishes and with that any meaning of being alive disappears. We become a nation of audio-automatons without will, without purpose, without individuality. This is exactly what the totalitarians have wanted since the first war lord ruled by bloody violence.
Did I overstate the risk?
It is clear that our fearful and cowardly governing élite in fact want a back door into our most secret communications. This is so they can snoop into our most private thoughts and claim that we have committed a crime against the state so as to prosecute us into oblivion using our own wealth words to do it.
It is not a mater of if it will happen, it is when it will happen.
You went exactly what I was thinking! How did you know?!
That was the first thought I had when I heard Elon explaining it all on the Joe Rogan show…
I posted before I scrolled down and read yours. I most definitely agree. The chances of abuse are very high and would be brought about by government; elites; and mainstream medicine, I believe. Beyond doubt Musk is a genius, but, as with Bill Gates, he’s among the uber-wealthy and, for me at least, subject to doubt.I mention mainstream medical because there’s been very vocal dissenters who have died of what I feel is very questionable circumstances. Technology exists already to have a mosquito size drone inject a heart-stopping drug, which is what I truly believe has happened already. My favorite saying is that the trouble with conspiracy theories is that so very many of them turn out to be true.
I agree wholeheartedly with what you are saying. We could be turned into worker bees and guard bees with only the safety and continuation of the hive as our jobs. And programmed to be satisfied with all of it.
So this Borg tech…
Also consider that “the government” has great difficulty in doing anything right. This suggests “the government” will botch the job of borgifcation of We the People. We just might rebel just in time to eliminate the problem. We have done it before so we can do it again.
A high tech civilization cannot exist in a heavy handed centralized control manner. This is exactly because innovative responses to new circumstances cannot be permitted. It is always and forever the same old same old same old. This is the death of civilization.
This is exactly what “they” have been working for since the first civilization. The total destruction of the good because it is good.
“They” don’t want to live at your expense, they want you to die as painfully as possible. Only when you do, will they die happy.
To me, the scariest thing in all of the Star Trek universe was the Borg. And then they created a “Borg Queen” and destroyed its scariness, turning it into just an evil queen from a fairy tale.
But Bill, they made a TV movie w/ Lee and Lindsay in ‘87. And they had the SFX tech to actually show him running at full speed. Not slow-motion. And it looked utterly redokulous.
Sometime you just have to go w/ tropes to not look silly.
Hey, Scott. I’m really liking that the videos auto-play now. Big step up from having to goto the homepage after each video.
Oh, this is not a ‘bug’ but a ‘feature’! But… but… when it autoplays the next video, you don’t automatically get the next set of comments, which is where the action’s at!
Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ’t!
Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Act 5, Scene 1